Reviewed by: BigAl
Genre: Thriller
Approximate word count: 100-105,000 words
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Author:
Best
selling author Rebecca Forster has had more than twenty books published in her
career, most legal thrillers.
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visit her website.
Description:
“Blame is
in the eye of the beholder when Josie faces her toughest challenge yet – one
that comes from halfway around the world and forces her to question her faith
in justice while threatening the people she loves most.”
This is
book #5 in The Witness series featuring attorney Josie Bates.
Appraisal:
I’ve read
three of the four prior books in this series and although having done so isn’t
a prerequisite to understand or enjoy this book, when I evaluate why I liked it,
one of the biggest reasons are the characters, specifically Josie Bates and her
foster child, Hannah. Eyewitness can
be read as a standalone and Forster introduces the bare bones of their back story,
but I couldn’t help wondering if doing so wouldn’t be missing out on some of
what I saw and felt, having made the previous investment and having the deeper
understanding of the characters that I had coming in. Josie is an attorney and
the books in the series are legal thrillers, yet they have more heart than the
typical book in this genre, largely because the legal conflict is usually much
more personal for Josie.
In this
installment, that personal stake is because her client is Billy Zuni, a friend
of Hannah’s who has been a secondary, but far from trivial character in
previous books. As Josie digs, she discovers that much of what she thought she
knew about Billy wasn’t quite reality. This is also unlike a typical
legal thriller because of the way it weaves elements of a foreign culture and
how that can influence the life of US immigrants into the story. I highly
recommend this book for fans of legal thrillers. Even more, I’d recommend
backtracking to the first of the series and reading them all.
FYI:
Although
the fifth book in the series, this can be read as a standalone.
Format/Typo Issues:
No
significant issues.
Rating: ***** Five stars
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